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Joey

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈd͡ʒoʊ.i//

A diminutive of the male given names Joe or Joseph.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A diminutive of the male given names Joe or Joseph.

    Indeed what do the tensomethings, who might be watching the show at that hour, make of jokes like Joey telling Chandler that his uncle Sal has a really big tongue.

    And not to rub salt in wounds, when it comes to making mincemeat of the competition, American Joey Chestnut is still top banana.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Josephine.

Etymology

Etymology tree English Joe Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English Joey From Joe + -y.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).